An account of the sore throat attended with ulcers; a disease which hath of late years appeared in this city [London] and in several parts of the nation / By John Fothergill, M.D.
- John Fothergill
- Date:
- 1748
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the sore throat attended with ulcers; a disease which hath of late years appeared in this city [London] and in several parts of the nation / By John Fothergill, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[6 ] Subject in 1620 (/). He gives us a method dical and pretty exad: Hiftory of the Symp¬ toms, and Method of Cure both general and topical, together with a fummary View of the Difputes, which at that time were ma¬ naged with fuflicient Heat and Acrimony, in relation to its Name, Caufe, and Na¬ ture ; about which they were as much di¬ vided as they were about the Method of Cure ; each Party appealing to Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna, &c. for the Support of their Opinions concerning a Difeafe, which it is not certain that thofe whom they appeal to ever faw. Johannes Baptijla Cortejius, in his MifceU lane a me die a (k)y takes notice of this Difeafe, and deferibes its principal Symptoms, in a Let¬ ter to Jo. Anton. Anguilloni, Phyficianin chief to the Maltefe Gallies. He confiders it indeed as a different Diftemper from that which in- fefted Naples, and other Parts of Italy, tho’, from his own Account of it, there appears little Reafon (i) De peftilente faucium afFe£tu Neapoli faeviente, opufculum, audtore Jo. Andrea Sgamhato, phylofophoac medico Neapoiitano, et academico otiofo. Neapoli ex* cudebat Tarquinius Longus, 1620. in 4to. (i) Joannis Baptijla Gortefii, medici ac pliilofophi, in MeiTanenfi academia praxim ordinariam e prima fede in- terpretantis, Mifcelhneorum Medicinalium Decades De¬ nse. MeJJancs 1625. in fol. 4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30547301_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
